In an article published in the journal Science, American professor Ezekiel Emanuel and more than a dozen experts from Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Norway and Singapore prioritize countries with maximum serious outbreaks.
The first is “to minimize the number of premature deaths,” Emanuel, director of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, told AFP.
The organization also refutes the concept that vaccine allocations correspond to the number of medical or elderly personnel in a country, which would automatically favor evolved countries.
“Who has a lot of health care staff and who has many other people over the age of 65?Rich countries,” said Emanuel, who was the architect of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms.
The expert formula, which they call the Fair Priority Model, is part of calculating the number of years of life to be added in a given country by issuing one million doses of vaccine, for example.
Peru, where COVID-19 mortality rates are very high lately, and the United States, where the virus continues to kill a thousand other people each day, would likely be on the priority list.
“But let’s take New Zealand, giving them a million doses, you’re not literally going to save one or two more people, so they would be at the bottom of the priority list,” he said.
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The organization rejects the argument that its policies praise mismanagement like that of the United States, which leads the world in number of deaths and instances of viruses.
“Americans should not be penalized because Donald Trump doesn’t seem to be able to take over this pandemic,” Emanuel said.
Against COVID-19 “it’s not said that the same thing happens to everyone,” he said.
“The country with the worst-case scenario will have to be treated first,” he added, comparing the stage to an emergency room where a victim is treated for attack at the center rather than the patient suffering from a sore throat.
After calculating the years of life that can be saved, experts propose to consider minimizing the economic and social effects of the virus, such as unemployment, poverty and school closure.
In their plan, populations of precedence are not necessarily fitness workers, however, those who are threatened by their housing, employment or age.
“Many fitness staff members are no longer inflamed because they know how to wear masks, gowns and gloves,” he said. “So you may not want to be the most sensitive on the list in terms of priority. empirical data. “
He added that vaccination of the elderly “can be painted if they respond well to a vaccine. “
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